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Kevin Buzzard experienced what he called a kind of midlife crisis while struggling to understand some mathematical literature and believing he had found errors in it.
Unresolved speaker · Mathematics Just Changed Forever — Kevin Hartnett · 26 Oct 2026
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“I had some kind of midlife crisis around that time because I was trying to read it, and I couldn't understand all of it, and I would find what I thought were mistakes in the literature.”26:49Report a misattribution
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